Happy for No Reason: 7 Steps to Being Happy from the Inside Out

According to the World Health Organization, the year 2020 will see depression become second only to heart disease in terms of the global burden of illness, a sad state of affairs that motivational speaker Marci Shimoff (co-author, Chicken Soup for the Woman’s Soul) believes can be changed by learning to cultivate “a happiness that’s beyond reasons and that’s here to stay.”

Inner happiness, she says, is within reach for anyone who can turn down the volume on their hectic lives and learn the 21 Happiness Habits that Shimoff has cultivated from 100 interviews with “deeply happy” people (including actress Goldie Hawn and author Elizabeth Gilbert).